Sentence examples for jocular character from inspiring English sources

McLernon, 50, is a large jocular character with a ruddy complexion and combed back bristly hair.

"His jocular character is quite an effective political tactic for shrugging off criticism," said Mike Tuffrey, a Liberal Democrat member of the London Assembly, who said that the mayor has a habit of saying things in one session, only to deny later that he said them.

Promoted as a hip stoner comedy, "Newlyweeds" sustains an amiable, jocular tone, even when its characters flirt with self-destruction.

He thus charts a zigzagging path between two other major characters: Herzog (Devid Striesow), the cynical, jocular Nazi who oversees Bernhard, and Burger (August Diehl), an idealistic prisoner who wants to subvert the plan.

The jocular, mock-honorific aspect is suited to his character.

While working his role as a jocular marijuana dealer for laughs in Pineapple Express (2008)—a stoner comedy costarring fellow Freaks and Geeks alumnus Seth Rogen, who collaborated on the screenplay with Apatow Franco simultaneously evoked the character's loneliness and disaffection.

Jocular commentary is a hallowed part of British folk concerts.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY OPERA The invaluable little company, a clearinghouse for all sorts of new operas, presents a reading of Ben Yarmolinsky's "Clarence and Anita," a jocular "docu-opera" based on Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, featuring characters based on Anita Hill and Senator Joseph Biden (in addition to a Whiffenpoof-type chorus of Ivy League lawyers).

A common case involves what might be called jocular conditionals.

It befits the role of the BFN to make such a jocular utterance with double entendre.

There's a tendency to cut short interesting ideas and storylines in favor of rosy, Hallmark moments, and the supporting characters tend to be predictable types (dotty old lady, battleax, capable plain girl, blonde temptress, jocular handyman, etc.).